Skintillates

Soft Inkjet Circuits

“…By taking advantage of the wide range of thermally cured inks and compatibility with viscous pastes, a wide range of devices can be printed. Applications include printed displays [26,38,61], interactive paper [25,37], actuation [37], and electronic tattoos [30,35,60]. Another very versatile alternative is silicone casting, which allows for creating transparent, highly stretchable [34,61] devices, while being thin and conformal [59] and optionally containing internal channels for conductive liquids [34] or pressurized fluids [8,65].…”

“…Circuits with full-color art layer: Aesthetic art layers have been reported as a desired feature for paper-based, wearable and on-body electronics [17,30]. Circuits that include fullcolor graphical elements can be printed in a single pass.…”

“…Tattoo decal paper has been used in prior work on body electronics [17,30]; however it required time-consuming screen printing. We demonstrate how to realize circuits using inkjet printing.…”

Body-Borne Computers as Extensions of Self

“…Emerging work at the intersection of fashion and technology has explored skin and interactive garments as displays of information or the wearer's emotional state [63][64][65][66][67]…”

“…iSkin is a silicone-based skin overlay for touch sensing [76], however, it requires the use of material-science grade materials (PDMS with carbon) and its thickness of 700 µm is much thicker than that of epidermal electronics (0.8 µm). Skintillates prints conductive silver ink on temporary tattoo paper to create 36 µm thick on-skin electrical traces [66].…”